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Book review: Take 2 – 50 Films That Deserve a New Audience
December 19, 2015 17:26 IST
Seeking to bring back awareness of some good, old Bollywood films shunted into oblivion, Deepa Gahlot, in this book, chooses, on basis of varied criteria, 50 of them, spanning almost six decades.
Book Review: Selfishness, Masochism, Death
December 19, 2015 00:33 IST
In his novel Submission, Michel Houellebecq suggests that it is an economic and cultural orthodoxy, and not Islam, that has robbed Western life of meaning
Book Review: The Voice of Reason
December 19, 2015 00:25 IST
Pranab Bardhan’s collection of essays applies plain-dealing economics to a range of issues in policy and politics
Book Review: The Writer as Political Being
December 19, 2015 00:18 IST
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s stories are written from the margin, against the grain and told with great skill and humanity.
In Their Language of Love
December 17, 2015 00:00 IST
A new imprint offers contemporary stories of young love, estrangement and loneliness in Hindi, where he ‘feels like Karawal Nagar’ and she is ‘like South-Ex’.
After OED’s emoji, Merriam-Webster picks ‘ism’ as the word of the year
December 15, 2015 12:21 IST
Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism.
It’s only the odd person like me who will appreciate solitude: Ruskin Bond
December 16, 2015 11:24 IST
In Delhi for the Penguin annual lecture, Ruskin Bond on his love for the hills, seeing small towns turn into cities, and meeting ghosts.
Book review – Red Maize
December 12, 2015 00:00 IST
A brutal novel on the plight of a land caught between the Indian army and terrorists and the hatred and anguish that tinge life in Kashmir.
Book review – Sharad Pawar’s On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power
December 12, 2015 00:00 IST
Even with its silences, Sharad Pawar’s autobiography is telling .
Book review – Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
December 11, 2015 23:29 IST
The first volume of Niall Ferguson’s biography of Henry Kissinger would have served its subject better if he had submitted him to a Kissingerian analysis.
Short, but with that ‘Gone Girl’ twist
December 6, 2015 12:42 IST
Gillian 'Gone Girl' Flynn can straddle both formats of long form and novellas. 'The Grownup' is perfect for those long commutes. And good enough to make you miss your stop.
The prodigal son returned: Author Benyamin on his return to India
December 7, 2015 16:24 IST
Till he reached Bahrain in 1992, the only book Benny Daniel knew was the Bible. But after writing 17 books, including the humongous bestseller, Goat Days, Benyamin has finally left the Gulf behind for the green at home.
For my films, as for my video library, I got a lot of unsolicited advice: Ram Gopal Verma
December 5, 2015 03:59 IST
Extract from Ram Gopal Verma's book, 'Guns and Thighs : The Story of My Life '
Question Time: The Public Intellectual in India
December 5, 2015 03:44 IST
A collection of essays explores the idea of the public intellectual and why questioning is at the heart of democracy
In an Enchanted Land: Imran Hussein’s ‘The Water Spirit and Other Stories’
December 5, 2015 03:37 IST
A collection of stories draws on myths and folklore of rural Assam to give voice to the subaltern
The Play’s the Thing: A History of Sport in India
December 5, 2015 03:29 IST
A history of Indian sport debunks the myth about this being a country of non-players and assesses the interplay between sport and the national self
Strings attached
November 30, 2015 01:27 IST
The panel included a poet from Sri Lanka Sharmila Seyyid, Perumal Murugan’s publisher Kannan Sundaram and musician TM Krishna.
The Brothers Bihari: A book that charts journeys of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad
November 29, 2015 15:06 IST
The book, written by seasoned political journalist Sankarshan Thakur, casts light on the life journeys of the two most formidable Bihar leaders.
The truth about things
November 29, 2015 01:00 IST
What did a pioneer of modern Japanese fiction have to do with Rashomon?
What an honour: Priya Parmar’s novel among NYT’s 100 notable books of 2015
November 28, 2015 17:22 IST
A novel of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, constructed around an invented diary and letters, Vanessa and Her Sister is a multilayered, subtly shaded novel.
Happiness is a Warm Cup
November 28, 2015 01:10 IST
But if it is “the champagne of teas”, reject milk, sugar and all other adulterants
John le Carré— The Biography review: Coming in From the Cold
November 28, 2015 01:09 IST
Having turned 84 last month, John le Carré, aka David (John Moore) Cornwell, knows that he isn’t around for too long. His decision, four years ago, to finally yield to a biography — one which would actually get published — will be rationalised as reconciliation with the inevitable. Writing the biography of a living person, […]
The Road to The Future
November 28, 2015 01:03 IST
An engaging account of the making of modern Myanmar and what its changing relationship with India signifies
The Razor’s Edge
November 27, 2015 00:17 IST
For the first time, a book on origami architecture showcases heritage buildings in India
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